Season 3 Episode 40 - Lambda's Birthday, CloudFormation Timeline & Bedrock Agents

In Season 3, Episode 40 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Chetan Hirapara. They discuss Lambda, CloudFormation Deployments, Anthropic, Amazon Q Developer plugins, Amazon Bedrock Agents and Karl suggests that you should choose a cloud provider based on your favourite colour....

06:53 - AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it

- Overview of the original PR FAQ document for Lambda

- Lambda was the first functions-as-a-service offering

- Lambda originally only supported Node.js, now supports many more languages and frameworks

- Billing granularity has improved from 250ms increments originally to 1ms now

- Cold start times for Java apps reduced by 90% with SnapStart

15:49 - Peek inside your AWS CloudFormation Deployments with timeline view 

- It provides a waterfall view of CloudFormation deployments

- Helps identify bottlenecks and long-running operations

- Can help optimize deployments by splitting stacks, parallelizing, etc.

21:11 - Amazon considering further investment in Anthropic 

- Amazon invested $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic in March 2022

- Reportedly wants Anthropic to use AWS Inferentia chips instead of Nvidia

- Anthropic was co-founded by former OpenAI executives

- Alphabet has also invested significantly in Anthropic

28:08 - Amazon Q Developer plugins now generally available for the AWS Management Console 

- Plugins allow Q Developer to interface with third-party services like Datadog and Whiz

- Provides easy access to information without leaving the AWS console

- Limited to fairly simple questions currently

33:50 - How Amazon Bedrock Agents work 

- Agents are like small orchestration software tools

- Have capabilities like memory, prompting users, invoking APIs

- Built using LLMs like Titan - Continuously run to provide answers to users

Guest was Chetan Hirapara

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetan-hirapara-90344345/

https://www.youtube.com/@upskillwithchetan